Colgate Freshman Fun

[MB]

Now as much as I hate reading blogs (it's not Smyth's)--

http://colgate.blogs.com/gatelife/2006/02/why_i_hate_corn.html

Enjoy the reading.  I know I did.

[redhair34]

Check this out as well (along the same lines)...
http://www.maroon-news.com/media/paper742/news/2006/02/03/Commentary/How-To.Heckle.Cornell-1598329.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.maroon-news.com

[Josh '99]

Heh.  Considering the contents, I think "Why going to a Colgate hockey game is a miserable experience" would have been a more appropriate title.

[RichH]

Wow, that was a disappointingly boring blog entry. Additionally, he didn't come close to expounding the title of this entry.  

"I went to a hockey game vs. a school I hate.  It was a good game, but we lost.  The end."  Gripping.

Before Saturday night's game, I disliked Cornell because, you know, it was the thing to do. I'm at Colgate; not liking Cornell goes hand-in-hand with that. But now, I can't stand it, that fake Ivy.

This was interesting.  I know they have an irrational hate of Cornell, and most of it seems to stem with the obsession/complex about the whole Ivy thing.  The t-shirts are a good example.  "Ivy doesn't mean anything on ice."  Well, the ECAC is a bigger deal to me, that's true.  But it means something on the gridiron, since all the Ivy League is is an athletic conference.  However, I didn't know hating Cornell is "the thing to do" on that campus.  I like the hockey relationship our schools have, but when we play for football, I don't have any feeling one way or another...I at least don't distinguish them from Bucknell, Lehigh, and the other Patriot League schools in terms of game importance.  

Of the Colgate people I've tried to rationally meet, most usually retreat to their shield of hate when they realize they let their guard down and almost treated me like a person.  I really want to classify them as a decent academic school, but just judging from the people I've met and observed through their hockey fandom, it's hard to do.  I'm sure others like to paint us the same way.

The game started late because the Cornell uniforms had gotten to Colgate late (yeah, right).

What possible advantage could a road team attain by faking the delivery of uniforms?  If anything, it made us hurried in getting dressed.

[Tub(a)]

[q]And while Cornell fans spend much of the game calling the opposing goalie a "siv" (since the goalie lets everything through - I think Martha Stewart made that one up), we should degrade the opposing goalie by calling him "mesh" or "Swiss cheese" or something else with holes.[/q]

The "siv" chant is by far our most devastating. ::laugh::

[q]I gotta say, whoever came up with some of those chants was brilliant. Among my favorites: "You're all ugly," "Where is Waldo?" (their band wore red-and-white striped shirts), "Jump in the gorge," "SUNY Ithaca," "hoootel maaanagement," and then there was the one directed towards the one girl on our side wearing bright red, "That girl sucks."[/q]

Those cheers were so original ::snore::

I actually wouldn't mind if Colgate fans got more organized and less drunk, but they should do it for more than the Cornell game.

[RichH]

[q]And while Cornell fans spend much of the game calling the opposing goalie a "siv" (since the goalie lets everything through - I think Martha Stewart made that one up), we should degrade the opposing goalie by calling him "mesh" or "Swiss cheese" or something else with holes.[/q]

First, the punchline: "Something else with holes...Like a Colgate mother?"

2) s-i-e-v-e.

3) The word sieve is so universal and engrained in the college game that anyone who thinks we or Martha Stewart originated it are so obviously college hockey newbies. Go back and watch your squeakball.

4) That's actually a good column.  But, now they've joined Harvard on the list of schools that have had newspaper columnists BEGGING for their fans to cheer like our fans.

[French Rage]

[quote redhair34]Check this out as well (along the same lines)...
http://www.maroon-news.com/media/paper742/news/2006/02/03/Commentary/How-To.Heckle.Cornell-1598329.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.maroon-news.com[/quote]

Actually a good article, if I were trying to duplicate the Lynah environment it's basically what I would say.

[Robb]

The article should have been titled, "Why I hate Colgate's handling of tickets for the Cornell hockey game."  That or "Mein Kampf II: Even More Boringer"

[French Rage]

From a friend at the game, the band's responses:

"Where is Waldo?" "With your mother"
"Hotel management" "Hotel janitors"
"SUNY Ithaca" "SUNY rejects"

[andyw2100]

[quote French Rage]From a friend at the game, the band's responses:

"Where is Waldo?" "With your mother"
"Hotel management" "Hotel janitors"
"SUNY Ithaca" "SUNY rejects"[/quote]

And another, from before the game started:

Colgate drunkards...er...students: "We're number one."

Our response (which I started, but which was immediately picked up by the Faithful): "Not much longer."
                   Andy W.

[redhair34]

The most gratifying part of the game was taunting the drunken morons as they filed out of the game by walking in front of and around our section. The look on the face of the jackass (usher) in front of section 13 when McCutcheon dealt Colgate a dagger in the heart was a close second.

[andyw2100]

Redhair34--

It sounds like we were sitting pretty close to each other. Were you one of the people in the front row (A), who brought the sign that was later stolen and destroyed? If so, I was in the row behind you. I was the guy who tried to force the usher to go after the sign. That usher was a real piece of work.
                 Andy W.

[billhoward]

>>> OK, back to the main story. So we waited in the annals of Reid in the hallways by the visiting teams' locker rooms (coincidentally, the women's basketball team had a game against Bucknell, so they had to make it through us to get to their room). In an excellent show of planning, guess who happened to show up as we waited? The Cornell hockey team, decked out in bright red sweatsuits, of course. They had to work their way past our line Colgaters, all the while ignoring the warm-up heckles of us students.

"Annals"? Am I missing an alternative usage beyond journal or chronological record?

We shouldn't poke too much fun of Colgate: but for a couple questions on the SATs we guessed right on ...

Also, Colgate makes New York State hockey look good. Most weekends. Too bad Syracuse doesn't have a D1 team. Well, there's RIT and who knows ...

[gatitita '05]

[quote andyw2100][quote French Rage]From a friend at the game, the band's responses:

"Where is Waldo?" "With your mother"
"Hotel management" "Hotel janitors"
"SUNY Ithaca" "SUNY rejects"[/quote]

And another, from before the game started:

Colgate drunkards...er...students: "We're number one."

Our response (which I started, but which was immediately picked up by the Faithful): "Not much longer."
                   Andy W.[/quote]

and my friend's favorite:
them: "you're all virgins"
us responding with "that's not what your mom said"

[Oat]

The only Colgate cheer that I might remotely consider agreeing with is:

"You're all ugly"

Haha.. I'm sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone here. I grew up in Hawaii and when I came to Cornell, I learned that there is a different threshold of ugliness in the air about this place. Sure there certainly are some good-looking men and women here at Cornell. But speaking in generality, I am willing to admit the slight truthfulness of the Colgate-invented statement that we don't quite exactly have the world's most beautiful bunch of academicians here at Cornell. Hiking through Ho Plaza to class everyday, I have never caught a possible visual of any Brad Pitt-resembling beings or any could-be Adriana Lima clones.

Well, in my opinion, the hypocritical toothpaste men and women aren't any less unattractive than we are. They do, however, have a great sense of unified shamelessness that we could never hope to match in a dozen decades. Other than that, Colgate is just a bunch of insignificant jealous idiots with collectively insufficient brain matter to organize themselves to give a good solid support for their #2 hockey team. They also think their fairy school is good enough now to suddenly declare themselves our magical rival. I wish I could tell their pathetic fans that we're not gonna lower ourselves to their dirty, unaccomplished level. We don't rival garbage. It's a waste of time.

Again, I am just playing their game right here. Putting aside ethics and morality, anything goes. The more insults, the better. Ok, sorry for the long and totally inappropriate rant. After I almost got hit by a flying pizza in Starr Rink that time, I could never have any respect for Colgate fans again in my life. :-(  Wondering if getting hit by a flying pizza would be a lawsuit..

Well, these ridiculous articles are nothing but horrible jokes on themselves (and their own one-side imaginary rivalry).